Hi Ruth,
I’ve seen your insightful contributions to “Self-Published Authors Helping Other Authors.” Your posts along with the other contributors really resonated with me as a self-published writer trying to break into this industry. I’m nominating you for the Mystery Blogger Award. Not sure if you have already received it but you deserve it. Of course accepting the award is optional. If you do choose to accept here are some instructions that you’ll want to carefully review: https://writersnookblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/11/accepting-the-mystery-blogger-award/

I just lost the reply I wrote. LOL I hope I can remember what I wrote.

First, thank you! I’m glad to hear you enjoy my books. 🙂

I usually offer a special epilogue to go with a new release either in my email list or in my private Facebook group. Are you on either one of these places? I know sometimes emails can get lost in a crowded inbox. (Mine is so stuffed sometimes that I run away from it.) Also, Facebook stopped emailing me whenever someone makes a post in a group I belong to, so sometimes I forget I’m in the group.

If you’re not on my email list but would like to be, I have a page on this blog to sign up for it (https://ruthannnordinauthorblog.com/sign-up-for-email-list/). I use MailChimp to sign people up because I don’t want MailChimp to think I’m adding people without their permission. There’s a risk I’ll lose my account if they think I’m spamming, and I don’t want to spam. By the way, I only send an email when I have a new release. I know some people like stuff more often, but I don’t like it when authors email me unless they have a new release because my inbox is cluttered enough as it is. So I don’t feel comfortable emailing unless I have something worth offering. 🙂

I originally became drawn to your books with Eye of the Beholder, which is one of my favorite ones.
I’ve enjoyed reading about the Larsons. I believe you do a really good job with all of your books they are the only ones that I have actually re-read and I have gotten many of them. Best of luck.

Thank you, Lisseth! The Larsons are my favorite family to write about, so I’m always glad when people tell me how much they enjoy reading about them. What means most to me, however, is knowing you re-read my books. There’s no higher compliment an author can get than that! Thank you for blessing my day! 😀

Hi Allyson, I never created an account at Google Books. My publisher did and put the books I published under them over there. Most of my books are self-published. I don’t know anything about publishing over there, to be honest. Right now I’m asking some authors I know about it, so I’ll see what they say. I was hoping Smashwords or Draft 2 Digital would establish a connection with Google Books so I could use them to get my books there. Smashwords and Draft 2 Digital take books and send them to B&N, Kobo, iBooks, etc, but so far, Google Books isn’t on the list. Draft 2 Digital is currently trying to establish something with them. From my initial inquiry into Google Books, it sounds like a distributor is needed. I’m not 100% on that, though, which is why I’m asking around about it.

I’m still looking at my options. The problem with Google books is that they like to be the lowest price, and Amazon doesn’t like that. Amazon wants to offer the lowest price, too. But with Google books, I can’t control the pricing. At Amazon, I can, but if they find a lower price elsewhere, I can find Amazon removing those books from their store. I’m waiting to see if some other avenues will pop up that can resolve this problem for me.

I went ahead and got things rolling at Google Books. I have about sixty books to go through, so I’m taking my time in uploading them over there. I’m trying to be careful with pricing so that it’ll match what I have at other retailers. As I said, the main concern is Amazon. As long as I can price accordingly so that I have the same price as what is at Amazon, there shouldn’t be any problems. I’ll keep an eye on things and see how it goes. I can’t afford to lose my Amazon income, so Amazon will be the priority if an issue comes up. It’s times like this when it’d be nice to have the protection of a publisher. 🙂

Hi, Allyson! I want to thank you for getting me out of my comfort zone. 🙂 It turns out Google is a lot easier to upload to than I thought it’d be. I’m in the process of getting my newer stuff up first. Is there any book (or books) you specifically would like for me to upload right away? I can put the others on hold. I have about forty more to go through.

Ruth, I love your Regency Series romances. I was wondering if you have a book based on “Candace”. Lord Hedwrett was mentioned in several of your books. I would like to know more about Candace and her life with Hedwrtett after he passed away at the end of Her Counterfeit Husband. Let me know if there is a book in the works on her story. Thanks

Hi Melody! I’m happy to say I do have a story featuring Candace. It’s called If It Takes A Scandal. I’m not sure what device you use to read ebooks, so I’ll link to the page where I have all of the retailers listed. The list is toward the middle of the page. https://booklaunch.io/ruthannnordin/ifittakesascandal